The People's Republic of Blappen is a massive, safe nation, ruled by Noah O'Donoghue with an iron fist, and notable for its vat-grown people, punitive income tax rates, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, cynical population of 1.108 billion Blappenese are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.

The enormous, corrupt, socially-minded, well-organized government juggles the competing demands of Education, Law & Order, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Dragclayfee. The average income tax rate is 76.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The strong Blappenese economy, worth 81.1 trillion Blappenese Dollars a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is quite specialized, is led by the Tourism industry, with significant contributions from Information Technology, Basket Weaving, and Woodchip Exports. Average income is 73,178 Blappenese Dollars, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles, the nation has an international reputation for compassion, prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls, and rogue nations are placing suspiciously large bulk orders for student laptops. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Blappen's national animal is the Derp, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Blappen is ranked 278,273^rd in the world and 222^nd in The Communist Bloc for Greatest Rich-Poor Divides, with 1.46 Rich To Poor Income Ratio.